Hi friends,
I heard that some of you like lists of books, so I made a list of books. Not to give away too many spoilers for my blog post, but one of the books I should be reading is Gender Trouble and in the post, you can read my excuses about why I'm not.
Books I should be reading but am not, along with my selected excuses
A book is not a pizza. It will not go off if you take a long time to read it all, and nothing is wasted if you read only a portion. Also, unlike pizza, you can get books out of the library or buy them in electronic form, so none to very little waste is produced as a result of you not finishing the book. There are plenty of books I start, decide I'm not into them, and don't finish. I don't consider it virtuous to finish books nor sinful to abandon them. Non-fiction and poetry books are often perfectly enjoyable or useful if you read only a portion.
However, there are some books that I think I should read, not out of some kind of moral obligation to the book itself, but for other reasons that are important to my life projects. Nonetheless, I am not reading them.
Thanks for reading and see you on the internet!
AK